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Fiona Leverick

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow Fiona Leverick is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Glasgow. She was a member of the team that undertook the Scottish Jury Research, a major study of mock jury decision making funded by the Scottish Government which has informed the debate over the abolition of the not proven verdict. Fiona Leverick has authored three books on criminal law: the fourth edition of Gerald Gordon’s The Criminal Law of Scotland (with James Chalmers, SULI/W. Green, 2023); Killing in Self-Defence (Oxford University Press, 2006); and Criminal Defences and Pleas in Bar of Trial (with James Chalmers, SULI/W. Green, 2006). She has published over 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and has provided policy advice on the prosecution of sexual offences in the UK and elsewhere.